Welcome to the Canadian Journal of Cardiatry

Welcome to the Canadian Journal of Cardiatry. Why have you never heard of Cardiatry? That’s because it is a new field of study coined and initiated by founder Tamás Revoczi to address the growing lack of Heart in modern society.

What is Cardiatry?
Cardiatry is a conflation of two greco-latinate root words: Cardio- meaning “of or related to the Heart…” and “-iatry” as in “Psychiatry”. While the goal of Psychiatry is to analyze and mend the Psyche or Mind, the goal of Cardiatry is to mend the Heart.

Why is a study of Cardiatry needed?

With the advent of modern industrialized and technological culture, some of our basic human abilities/needs are being overlooked. One of these blindspots is the decrease in heart energy in all its aspects. Current contemporary thinking encourages us to develop and sharpen our minds and sculpt and hone our bodies to impossible levels of perfection. But what about the heart? Why are we not being encouraged to develop and grow our hearts?

I’m not talking about soul or spirit here, since I don’t claim to be a theologian, but having a good, strong, clear heart is the basic tenet of most religions as far as I am aware. In this new exploration of the human heart, I will be looking at all the facets and manifestations of heart energy that we all know, but seem to quickly overlook in popular parlance including but not limited to: Courage, Kindness, Caring, Compassion and, of course, Love to mention a few on the positive side.

What may happen if we don’t pay attention to Cardiatry?

If we allow this heartlessness to continue and grow, the apocalyptic “Terminator” nightmare will come true. If you’ve never watched the Terminator movie series, in a nutshell it’s about a post-apocalytic world where humans create and in turn are hunted to virtual extinction by the Artificially Intelligent machines that take over the world in the near future. The Terminators are virtually indestructible killer robots with super strong metal alloy bodies equipped with networked Artificial Intelligent supercomputers in place of brains. They have a layer of synthetic skin and some cases have artificially grown organs to mimic human form in order to better infiltrate human communities. In short, they epitomize a race of beings of superb minds and bodies, with absolutely no feeling or heart.

The reason this “Terminator Universe” is so terrifiying, is because we innately sense that this “machine evolution” is already underway, while perhaps not with killer robots, but with our own minds, bodies and hearts. There have been times when I have found myself saying I feel more like a machine than a man, partly because my jobs for the past couple of decades have required me to be “wired to” a computer for most of my waking day. Unfortunately, unlike a Terminator, my body is atrophying while my mind develops, bringing with it a whole host of un- and dis-ease which I’m beginning to find a challenge to keep at bay. I suspect there are many people in our modern world who can relate to this.

So how do we prevent this machine re-evolution? Do we need a John Connor? (The leader of the human resistance against the Terminators) Thankfully, the de-evolution is not that far advanced… yet. We still remember what it is like to have a heart. We still honour heroes and yearn after heart energy (eg: Music downloads on the internet, etc.). While it is a romantic notion to be a neo-luddite and start smashing the machines, ultimately, destruction is not the answer. Perhaps it is more important to imbue our machines with heart, like the Tin Man from Oz so that when/if they become sentient lifeforms, they will know right from wrong as any being with a heart innately knows.

What is the future of Cardiatry?

While there is currently no official School of Cardiatry, where one can become an official “Cardiatrist”, I will endeavour to develop and “practice” Cardiatry with as much care and intellectual rigour and professionalism as my heart will allow. Contrary, in some respects, to traditional Schools of academic study where knowledge is obtained and guarded by a select few, I hope to open this field of study to the world for the good of all beings with hearts. Starting by harnessing the power of the internet, I believe we can start coming together and collectively start warming, softening and lightening all of our hearts. I hope you will join me.